site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com I really can't believe Jails aren't in Mac OS X. What a shock! How about Xen? Maybe thats feasible if Jails are missing. -Juan On Jul 30, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Mo McRoberts wrote: Darwin doesn't include the jail() syscall, nor zones, but sandboxing in 10.5+ may let you achieve the same thing (I haven't looked deeply at it)—sandboxing seems to be mostly designed as a more advanced form a chroot(), rather than a way to run a pseudo-virtualised environment (possibly with its own IP or dedicated NIC assigned, along with other selected physical resources). M. -- http://nevali.net _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... I need to set up multiple development environments on my Macbook Pro and don't want to trash the default Mac OS X installs of apache etc... A Jail would simplify things considerably. I hope Mac OS X ports over FreeBSD Jails or Solaris Zones as soon as possible! Its sorely needed. Parallels or VMWare is over kill and resource intensive. Jails are lightweight. On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 16:33, <z3r0_f4ct0r@mac.com> wrote: Is it possible to create Jails in Mac OS X like in FreeBSD or Solaris Zones? I haven't found any information on this. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com